Advancing Climate Equity – Practice Guide for Advancing Climate Equity in Coastal Climate Change Adaptation. https://shiftcollaborative.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PracticeGuide_ClimateEquity_Final_09_16.pdf
Nature-based solutions, including wetlands and other biodiverse natural systems, can play an important role in ensuring climate resiliance. Most governments, including here in Canada, are looking to options to mitigate the effects of climate change through regulations or funding new technologies. To this end, nature-based solutions (NbS) offer the most promising path forward. Read more here.
Coastal living appeals to the senses. The soothing sounds of waves and sea birds, the smell of fresh air, the picturesque scenery, and of course, the fresh seafood. It’s not surprising to learn that more than 3.2 million Canadians reside within 10 kilometres of the Pacific Coast and more than 2.2 million reside within the same distance of the Atlantic Coast, according to Statistics Canada.
Unfortunately, nearly a half a million of these Canadians live within five metres of the current sea level in communities that are at risk from extreme weather events. Read more here.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Canada promote Nature-based Solutions (NbS) in Latin America and the Caribbean. The pilot projects in each selected country will include NbS in sectors such as transportation, integrated landscape management, water and sanitation, urban planning, and watershed management.
Researchers are developing more permeable pavements to allow water to flow through streets rather than run off the surface and end up in residential basements in an effort to make cities more resilient to flooding caused by climate change.
As the world confronts the escalating climate crisis, innovative solutions such as the multi-faceted approach centered on nature-based solutions need to be implemented to help mitigate urban heat risks.
Read more on this from the University of Waterloo’s latest entry in its “Solving the crisis:” series, which explores the pressing challenges of our time, including climate change, biodiversity collapse, housing affordability and more.
“This first edition of Nature-Based Infrastructure for Coastal Flood and Erosion Risk Management – A Canadian Design Guide signposts and provides evidence-based guidance for practitioners on approaches, methods, and techniques for selecting, designing, deploying, preserving, and adaptively managing nature-based infrastructure (a form of nature-based solution) to manage coastal flood and erosion risk in Canada. It builds on existing international guidance to provide insights and lessons learned from Canadian projects and contexts. Although primarily aimed at providing technical guidance to Canadian practitioners and professionals engaged in conceptualization, design, and implementation of nature-based coastal infrastructure, the guide may also prove useful to communities, decision makers, policy makers, or non-technical users.”
“An engaging, activity-based course that provides you with all the information you need to design your own rain garden.
Six training modules covering topics such as:
You will receive ongoing support from classmates, master gardeners, and landscape designers as you design your own rain garden.
Participants also have the option to purchase a physical copy of Rusty Schmidt’s Blue Thumb Guide to Rain Gardens to support their learning.
Participants will receive formal certification upon completion of their rain garden.”
“When working to influence policies and investments in local communities, it is useful to recognize the intersection between population health, health equity, and sustainability. Communication surveys indicate that people are more likely to support climate-related policies when they understand that those policies can produce immediate health benefits. In addition, when investments are being made in local communities to transition away from fossil fuels that are driving climate change, it is essential that consideration be given to how those investments can improve population health and reduce social inequities.”
Blog post by Kim Perrotta from the Canadian Health Association for Sustainability & Equity (CHASE)